Hundred Heroines: Women in Photography Today

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Hundred Heroines: Women in Photography Today 📸 Modern museum of women in photography
Open Thurs, Fri & Sat 11-4PM
Unit 19
Nailsworth Mills
Avening Road
Nailsworth
Glos. GL6 0BS

🌿✨ Part of our Poisoned Futures? programme ✨🌿⁠⁠⁠🍓 Garden Party⁠📅 8 August | 🕒 17:30⁠⁠Join us in Mortimer Gardens for a...
24/07/2025

🌿✨ Part of our Poisoned Futures? programme ✨🌿⁠
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🍓 Garden Party⁠
📅 8 August | 🕒 17:30⁠
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Join us in Mortimer Gardens for an early evening gathering beneath the trees.⁠
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Book via link in bio⁠
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🧵 Visible Mending Workshop⁠
📅 31 July | 🕒 18:00-20:00⁠
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A hands-on session celebrating care and repair through stitching. Beginners welcome!⁠
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Book via link in bio

🌍📸 CALLING YOUNG CREATIVES! 📸🌍⁠⁠Are you under 25 and passionate about the planet?⁠Got an eye for photography and a story...
04/07/2025

🌍📸 CALLING YOUNG CREATIVES! 📸🌍⁠
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Are you under 25 and passionate about the planet?⁠
Got an eye for photography and a story to tell?⁠
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We’re looking for powerful, original images that explore what green means to you. ⁠
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🟢 Photography Competition⁠
🗓️ Deadline: August 31⁠
📍Open to under-25s worldwide⁠
🎉 Winning entries will be exhibited in the Art Garden⁠
📸 Winner receives a Canon Zoemini ⁠
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Full details on website
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🖤 🖤 New arrival for the Collection 🖤🖤⁠Grete Eckert’s photograph of the death mask of the L'Inconnue de la Seine—The Unkn...
20/06/2025

🖤 🖤 New arrival for the Collection 🖤🖤⁠
Grete Eckert’s photograph of the death mask of the L'Inconnue de la Seine—The Unknown Woman of the Seine.⁠
The much reproduced death mask was the basis of the Resusci Anne CPR doll, created in the 1960s, using her face as a model - sometimes called “the most kissed face of all time.”⁠

🌿 Round-up of this week at Hundred Heroines 🌿⁠Visit our summer “Poisoned Futures” ⁠🏛️Hundred Heroines Museum, Nailsw...
17/06/2025

🌿 Round-up of this week at Hundred Heroines 🌿⁠
Visit our summer “Poisoned Futures” ⁠
🏛️Hundred Heroines Museum, Nailsworth Mills Estate ()⁠
🌾 Miles Marling Field, Forest Green⁠
**Opens Thursday** 🌸 The new Art Garden in Mortimer Gardens (slightly delayed owing to technical problems…) and display at King George V Playing Fields⁠
Featuring works by Laura El-Tantawy - ⁠
Gulshan Khan - ⁠
Lisl Ponger - ⁠
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✨ Scarlett McNally , fine art student and SVA Open Studios participant, will be in residence this weekend! Pinhole photographs, photograms, and sculpture – all made from discarded objects. ⁠
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Big thanks to Canon Young People Programme and for their support in making this happen!⁠
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Images⁠
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Behind the Scenes Š ⁠
Installation at Miles Marling Š ⁠
Field Notes for the Future – participation board for the time capsule⁠
Pinhole Š ⁠
How to find us

Introducing the artists⁠⁠📍 Poisoned Futures? | Hundred Heroines Museum, Mortimer Gardens Art Garden and Miles Marling Fi...
09/06/2025

Introducing the artists⁠
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📍 Poisoned Futures? | Hundred Heroines Museum, Mortimer Gardens Art Garden and Miles Marling Field | June–September 2025 ⁠
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Lisl Ponger is a Vienna-based visual artist whose multidisciplinary practice explores stereotypes, racism, and the construction of the gaze. Working at the intersection of art, art history, and ethnography, she utilises photography, film, installation, and text to challenge cultural narratives and highlight issues of identity, memory and power dynamics.⁠
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Featured image: Wild Places, 2001 Š Lisl Ponger. The works in the exhibition examine how historical and contemporary systems of power continue to shape uneven geographies of suffering and privilege.⁠
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This exhibition and programme has been made possible thanks to the generous support of the Canon Young People Programme and Nailsworth Town Council

📍 Poisoned Futures? | Hundred Heroines Museum, Mortimer Gardens Art Garden and Miles Marling Field | June–September 2025...
09/06/2025

📍 Poisoned Futures? | Hundred Heroines Museum, Mortimer Gardens Art Garden and Miles Marling Field | June–September 2025 ⁠
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Laura El-Tantawy is an award winning British/Egyptian documentary photographer, book maker & educator. Investigating notions of home and belonging, she routinely approaches her work from a social and environmental sensibility drawing on her transatlantic background. Her visual explorations often intertwine moving images, sound, and personal narratives, marked by the artist’s lyrical eye on reality. Through her work, she aims to create socially engaged, thought-provoking visual narratives that challenge perceptions and inspire transformative change.⁠
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Featured image: From the series “Pang’Ono Pang’Ono” © Laura El-Tantawy. The series explores the emotional and physical toll on women in Malawi in their quest to access clean water. The project was originally commissioned by WaterAid and Wimbledon Foundation.⁠
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This exhibition and programme has been made possible thanks to the generous support of the Canon Young People Programme and Nailsworth Town Council

📍 Poisoned Futures? | Hundred Heroines Museum, Mortimer Gardens Art Garden and Miles Marling Field | June–September 2025...
09/06/2025

📍 Poisoned Futures? | Hundred Heroines Museum, Mortimer Gardens Art Garden and Miles Marling Field | June–September 2025 ⁠
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Introducing the artists #1⁠
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Gulshan Khan is a contemporary South African photographer whose work focuses on themes related to human rights, social justice, identity, culture and the dignity of people. Her visual reflections of the human condition and the world around her continue to be driven by these themes, offering poignant insights into the complexities of contemporary life.⁠
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“While Plastic pollution has become a dangerous global problem, for some, recycling means the difference between a meal or going hungry every day.”⁠
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Featured image from “Life in Plastic”. A reclaimer at Robinson Deep landfill, Johannesburg's largest landfill. Recyclers complain of not having adequate protective clothing and as a result suffering infections and other health issues © Gulshan Khan ⁠
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This exhibition and programme has been made possible thanks to the generous support of the Canon Young People Programme and Nailsworth Town Council

🌿 An exciting and busy week ahead at Hundred Heroines 🌿⁠⁠This Friday marks the opening of our summer “Poisoned Futur...
08/06/2025

🌿 An exciting and busy week ahead at Hundred Heroines 🌿⁠
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This Friday marks the opening of our summer “Poisoned Futures” – across three sites:⁠
🏛️Hundred Heroines Museum, Nailsworth Mills Estate ()⁠
🌾 Miles Marling Field, Forest Green⁠
🌸 The new Art Garden in Mortimer Gardens⁠
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Featuring Laura El-Tantawy - ⁠
Gulshan Khan - ⁠
Lisl Ponger - ⁠
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Opening reception:⁠
📍 Contemporary Gallery, Museum⁠
🕠 17:30 on 13 June⁠
🔗Head over to Eventbrite to book your ticket!⁠
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✨ Plus: we’re thrilled to host Scarlett McNally , fine art student and SVA Open Studios participant, for the next two weekends! Expect pinhole photographs, photograms, and sculpture – all made from discarded objects.⁠
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♻️ Feeling inspired? Join us in the Re-Use Studio – we’ve been dumpster diving so you don’t have to. Come get creative with recycled materials.

Opening 17:30 June 13, this powerful exhibition confronts the hidden costs of climate action. Featuring works by acclaim...
06/06/2025

Opening 17:30 June 13, this powerful exhibition confronts the hidden costs of climate action. Featuring works by acclaimed photographers 📸:⁠
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Laura El-Tantawy - ⁠
Gulshan Khan - ⁠
Lisl Ponger - ⁠
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The exhibition invites us to explore the complex global entanglements of climate change, environmental justice and human survival.⁠
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Stay tuned for further details ...🌿

Congratulations, Maryam! .official ⁠⁠Maryam Firuzi’s stunning book "Before Our Chance to Watch Ends" has just landed in...
25/05/2025

Congratulations, Maryam! .official ⁠
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Maryam Firuzi’s stunning book "Before Our Chance to Watch Ends" has just landed in our library. Her powerful work featured in our last exhibition Based on a True Story.⁠
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A must-have for anyone interested in lens-based storytelling, resistance and life in Iran.⁠
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✨ Come browse it in person.

🎈Today would have been the 90th birthday of photographer Elisabeth Buchmeyer Lewis (1935–2018).⁠⁠We’re proud to hold her...
24/05/2025

🎈Today would have been the 90th birthday of photographer Elisabeth Buchmeyer Lewis (1935–2018).⁠
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We’re proud to hold her archive—an extraordinary record of the creative and countercultural scenes of the late 20th century. Through her lens, the personal becomes political, the backstage becomes centre stage, and legends become unexpectedly human.⁠
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Swipe through for:⁠
🎤 Ian Dury⁠
🖼 Hannah Francis with her harp⁠
🎸 Robert Plant⁠
📸Self-portrait⁠
🚗Contact sheet⁠
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Elisabeth didn’t just make photographs—she built relationships, nurtured trust and told stories the mainstream missed. Her archive is a living thing, and we’re honoured to care for it.

Exhibition: A Visual Homage to Sophie Gaudier-Brzeska⁠Location: Hundred Heroines Museum, Nailsworth⁠Closes: Sunday 1 Jun...
21/05/2025

Exhibition: A Visual Homage to Sophie Gaudier-Brzeska⁠
Location: Hundred Heroines Museum, Nailsworth⁠
Closes: Sunday 1 June 2025⁠
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Featured photographer: Mary Beth Willis⁠
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Hi, this is Mary Beth Willis and I’m happy to be here for the takeover. I’m an American photographer and writer who has lived in England for almost twenty years. I’m a self-taught photographer who learned to focus my lens by capturing our daughters and the flowers in my garden and by the wayside here in England. ⁠
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I’m fascinated by the role ‘play’ plays in our lives! When introduced me to Sophie Gaudier-Brzeska’s life and work in her beautiful book ‘I Also Fight Windmills’ I was saddened by Sophie’s story but also inspired by it too. ⁠
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‘For Fun’s Sake’ is my photo in the ‘We Also Fight Windmills’ group exhibition. I have many questions about play, motherhood and the erosion of our opportunities to play in our digital age. The tree’s erosion in the encroaching waters is there for all to see. The erosion of mother’s and children’s freedom to play and be themselves without the watchful gaze of the digital age is harder to capture. The photograph of the children climbing a pine tree in the tidal waters of the Gulf of Mexico, taken with a Rolleiflex T film camera, represents erosion in many forms. For a moment the children played in analogue…⁠
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“It is a happy talent to know how to play.” ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson⁠
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I am currently working on a Pocket Guide to Play and researching the life and work of the photographer Dorothea Lange and her husband Paul Schuster Taylor at the Bodleian Libraries, with a mind to curate a collection of Lange’s work while creating my own ‘Panacea’. ⁠
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Image1: For Fun’s Sake ⁠
Image2: Consider the Oyster ⁠
Image3: Mother’s Pine

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